Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales, Cale Dietrich

15 reviews

caitlin_123a's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Drug use, Vomit, Biphobia, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Car accident, Blood, Confinement, Homophobia, Drug abuse, and Alcoholism

jennifer_bush_73's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective tense medium-paced

3.5

Objectively, it’s a good book. And Ii enjoyed listening to it. For me, this book was more serious than what I was looking for. The toxic mother and managers not for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Outing, Addiction, Bullying, Biphobia, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, and Gaslighting

linnea1801's review against another edition

emotional inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I think I’ve seen this film before… (*whispers one direction*)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Addiction, Drug use, Homophobia, and Bullying

laracroft2001's review against another edition

emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Homophobia, and Bullying

Minor: Medical content

teatales's review against another edition

emotional hopeful

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.0

It was okay. Honestly found it hard to differentiate between the two leads, dunno if that's because I had a slight break in reading it from when I started it. Still prefer others from this genre - IWBFT and Kiss & Tell 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Bullying

Moderate: Car accident and Drug use

nitya_a's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Outing, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Addiction, Sexual content, Car accident, Confinement, and Bullying

Minor: Biphobia

btwnprintedpgs's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Alcohol, Bullying, Car accident, Drug abuse, and Gaslighting

Toxic work environment

jfield351's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

This was a very lovely book! Very real and interesting insight into the pressures and hardships of celebrity life. It was a beautiful love story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Biphobia, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Homophobia, Medical content, and Outing

Minor: Bullying, Car accident, and Child abuse

beca_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

 I forgot how much I loved reading about famous bands, and the implications of fame. We follow Ruben and Zach who are both apart of the biggest boyband in the world "Saturday". Ruben is gay and is out to his friends and family, but the record label won't let him come out to the world in fear of backlash. Meanwhile Zach starts to explore his sexuality and realises he is bisexual. Zach and Ruben enter a relationship that to begin with is supported by their record label, but it slowly becomes clear that they will try to keep Ruben and Zach silent for as long as possible. This book explores the pressures of the media, and the dark side of the music industry. Drug use and addiction is also discussed, with Angel one of the members of the band using them as a way to get away from the pressure.
I felt this book was pretty well written, It was pretty obvious that Ruben and Zach were written by different authors, as there was a slight shift in tone and at times was slightly jarring. I would of liked to see a bit more discussion around mental health this was very loosely touched upon but could of been developed further. I would have also liked to see more of Jon, as I didn't feel that we got enough of him, or the depth that we got with the other characters.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Homophobia, Alcohol, Drug use, Gaslighting, and Addiction

kayladaila's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Homophobia

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Confinement, Alcohol, Biphobia, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Outing, and Sexual content